Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

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The Wenchun Pavilion was built along the street, and it was built with cement a long time ago, with a total of four floors.

On the top floor of the fireworks building, there is a hall that can accommodate 60 to [-] people. At this time, the hall is full of wealthy households of all sizes in Anyang County.

At the head of the hall sat a middle-aged man with a long beard on his chin and inverted triangular eyes.

The middle-aged man was wearing a Tianxia Datong hat and a round-neck shirt, and he looked quite elegant.

This person is the magistrate of Zhangde Prefecture, named Yuan Shenyan.

Sitting at Yuan Shenyan's starting position were seven or eight middle-aged men who looked like scholars, and these middle-aged men were officials in the prefecture of Zhangde Prefecture.

Sitting below are wealthy gentry in the prefecture of Changde Prefecture.

Wenchun Hall is a place of fireworks, but the strange thing is that there is not a single woman in the hall at this time.

Yuan Shenyan stroked the beard on his chin, and said firstly, "The price of food in the city has been going up and up in the past few days, and now it has reached eight taels of silver per stone!"

"Hey, magistrate, now that Zhao bandits have sent 20 troops into Shanxi, it is normal for food prices to soar at such a juncture, after all, natural disasters and man-made disasters are beyond our control.

In the past few years, there have been many natural disasters, and the food has been decreasing every year. Coupled with the pressure of the Zhao thief, it is normal for food prices to soar! "

As soon as Yuan Shenyan's voice fell, a gentleman stood up with a smile on his face.

"You're right. There have been many natural disasters in the past few years, and now that the bandits Zhao are pressing, it's normal for food prices to be higher!" Yuan Shenyan stroked the beard on his chin with a smile.

"Now there are tens of thousands of stones of old grain in the Changping warehouse of Zhangde Mansion. I wonder which gentry can help me sell these grains?"

Yuan Shenyan looked at the gentry in the hall without hiding anything.

Changping granary is a granary set up by the ancient court to adjust grain prices, store grain in preparation for shortages, and supply food for the government and the people.

The main function of Changping warehouse is to stabilize grain prices and stabilize people's hearts.

Generally speaking, if the price of grain in the market is too low, the people's grain cannot be sold at a price.

At this time, the local government stepped in to appropriately increase the price of grain and buy a large amount of grain from the people.

If the price of grain in the market is too high, the local government will step in at this time to appropriately reduce the price and sell the grain in the Changping warehouse.

The constant level warehouse policy not only avoids "cheap grain hurts the farmers", but also prevents "high grain hurts the people".In terms of stabilizing food prices and stabilizing people's hearts, Changping warehouse has a huge effect.

However, ideals are good, but reality is cruel.In most cases, the Changping warehouse not only failed to play its due role, but even became the hardest-hit area for government-business collusion to resell grain.

And this Yuan Shenyan is even better at reselling grain. During his time as the magistrate of Zhangde Prefecture, he resold more than half of the Changping warehouse in Zhangde Prefecture.

Originally, the grain in the Changping warehouse in Zhangde Mansion was used by Yuan Shenyan to deal with the old grain left over from the inspection by the superiors, but after seeing the soaring price of grain in the recent period, Yuan Shenyan focused on these pressured On the grain at the bottom of the box.

"I!"

"My lord, I can!"

"My lord, I can too!"

As soon as Yuan Shenyan finished speaking, the gentry in the hall were scrambling to grab the food, for fear that they would not be able to grab the food.

Yuan Shenyan looked at this scene with a smile on his old face.

Among the gentry in the hall, sat a man in his 30s wearing a blue T-shirt.

He looked at the scene in front of him without any expression on his face.

"Hehe, it's really rotten to the root. The dignified magistrate openly resells the food in the Changping warehouse. It's simply lawless. Hmph, when the army of the commander-in-chief arrives at the gate of Zhangde Mansion, how can you moths laugh?" Come out?" The man sneered and scolded the people in front of him over and over in his heart.

"Brother Wen, you have a cement road in your hand, and you have earned a lot of money in Zhangde Mansion in the past few years. You can't compete with me this time!" A middle-aged man sitting next to the man looked at it with a smile on his face. Looking at the man, but his eyes are full of vigilance, but he hides all this very well.

"Hehe, grab it with you? Pooh, what the hell!" The man cursed in his heart.

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"Steal this grain with you? Pooh, what are you? I'll grab this grain with you? When the commander-in-chief approaches the city, I'd like to see what waves you can make!

The food you took away today will be brought back by the Chief Soldier sooner or later.Hmph, at that time, I want to see if you can still laugh. "The man looked at the person sitting beside him, cursing in his heart.

Although the man despises him in his heart, he still has to show a kind look on his face.

The man suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, and said with a smirk: "Brother Qi, don't worry, I won't earn these grains with you. I have sold cement for a lot of money in the past few years. I don't want the grain this time." Will want it!"

"Haha, that's good, that's good. If Brother Wen and I compete for these grains, with Brother Wen's financial resources, then I really can't compete with Brother Wen!"

The man called Brother Qi by the man laughed and finally felt relieved.

The man's name was Wen Zaidao, and he was originally a steward of Zhao Wen's caravan. He was sent to Zhangde Mansion by Zhao Wen because he was cautious and thoughtful.

One is to resell cement, and the other is to collect intelligence.

There are more than 50 masters under Wen Zaidao's subordinates. These masters are usually Wen Zaidao's buddies, and they secretly collect news about Zhangde Mansion.The collected information will be summarized, and the useful ones will be spread to Xuan Town.

There are people like Wen Zaidao in almost every county in Henan.

These people are either cement vendors, glass vendors or grain vendors.

Time passed slowly, and the competition for the food among the merchants in the hall gradually reached its climax.

These businessmen usually call each other brothers, and they seem to be happy and happy, but when it comes to these grains, their faces are blushing and their necks are thick, and no one is willing to take a step back.

In the middle of the night, a businessman named Chen Liang snatched the last grain from the Changping warehouse in Zhangde Mansion.

Chen Liang stood up, bowed his hands at Yuan Shenyan and the many businessmen in the hall, and said with a smile on his face: "Everyone, I have accepted it, I have accepted it!"

The businessmen in the hall looked at Chen Liang with different expressions on their faces.

There is dissatisfaction, resentment, and envy.

Yuan Shenyan stroked the beard on his chin, with a smile on his face.

The smiles of the Zhangde Mansion officials sitting under Yuan Shenyan were even stronger than Yuan Shenyan's.

As the saying goes, a person who attains enlightenment ascends to heaven, Yuan Shenyan said that after selling the grain, they can also have a sip of soup.

When the time came to midnight, the merchants in the hall had already left.

And Yuan Shenyan, under the arrangement of his subordinates, carried a few beauties to the guest room on the third floor.

This night was destined to be a sleepless night, Wen Tiren sat quietly in the yard, not feeling sleepy at all.

The sad look on his face became more and more serious, even if the cloak on his body was wet with dew, he didn't care.

"Hey, what should I do now? If I go to the front line in Henan, I will definitely die. If I don't go, His Majesty will not let me go. Although no one is watching me, but when I pass by the place, the local officials will definitely report me. Whereabouts. Difficult, difficult, it is too difficult." Wen Tiren slapped his thigh and kept sighing.

Dark clouds began to appear in the sky, covering the moon.

The moonlight also gradually dimmed, and finally disappeared completely, and the earth was pitch black.

When the first drops of rain hit the ground, the rain fell in a patter.

Wen Tiren stood up and walked towards his room.

Wen Tiren lay on the bed again, listening to the sound of rain outside, his eyes gradually became hazy.

The spring rain fell on Zhangde Mansion, and even the land of Jiyuan where Song Hu was located also had spring rain.

The sky gradually brightened, and Song Hu led the soldiers and horses and began to go to Jiyuan.

Song Hu led the cavalry to gallop on the official road in Henan.

Due to years of disrepair, the ground was soaked by rain and became muddy.

Song Hu and the others also gradually slowed down.

Song Hu was wearing a raincoat made of oilcloth and looked at the road ahead.

There are wheat fields on both sides of the official road, but because there is no fertilizer, the wheat seedlings in the wheat fields are sparse and malnourished.

The official road is not very wide, so the soldiers under Song Hu's command inevitably stepped on the wheat field.

Song Hu did not stop this phenomenon.

Now that it is raining heavily and the road is muddy, the time to go to Henan will definitely be longer.

If the cavalry were not allowed to rush through the wheat fields, it would probably take longer.

In Song Hu's view, these wheat fields are stepped on as soon as they are stepped on. At worst, after Henan is captured, the owner of the wheat fields will be compensated.

"Brothers, it's raining now, let's hurry up, we must arrive at Jiyuan at noon today." Song Hu turned his head, looked at the orderly beside him, and roared at the top of his voice.

The messengers beside him took Song Hu's orders and headed towards the surroundings.

Zhao Wen was riding on a war horse, wearing a raincoat similar to Song Hu's, and looking ahead.

"My lord, according to our current speed, we will definitely reach the Yellow River defense line before noon tomorrow!" Li Xiaosan followed behind Zhao Wen and said to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen nodded and said, "Yes, we will definitely reach the Henan defense line before noon tomorrow!"

At this moment, several war horses suddenly appeared in front of Zhao Wen, and the people sitting on these horses were wearing the clothes worn by ordinary people.

Li Xiaosan looked at these people rushing over, narrowed his eyes, and involuntarily put his right hand on the big black star on his waist.

"Go ahead and see who they are!" Zhao Wen said, pointing to these people who suddenly appeared in front of him.

As soon as the voice fell, dozens of personal guards rushed out from Zhao Wen on horseback.

In a short while, these personal guards surrounded these people.

"Who are you?" A sturdy guard looked at these people coldly and asked.

These people pulled the reins of the horses in their hands and stopped.

A big man came out from inside, "We are the spies of Luoyang City, where Henan Fucheng is located. This is my identity certificate. Ye Bushou in front has already found out our identity!"

The big man took out an iron plate from his pocket and threw it to the sturdy bodyguard.

The personal guard caught the iron plate in the air, and recognized the iron plate at a glance.

Every soldier under Zhao Wen's command has an iron plate to prove his identity, even these spies are no exception.

These iron plates are made by stamping process, engraved with the soldier's identity information.

The stamping process was only realized by Zhao Wen in this era, so Zhao Wen didn't have to worry about forgery at all, and the characteristics of the stamping process were also obvious, plus the anti-counterfeiting feature designed by Zhao Wen himself, so it was very easy to recognize.

The guard returned the iron plate in his hand to the big man, "Follow me!"

After speaking, the personal guard turned around and led these people to Zhao Wen's body.

"I have seen Mr. Chief Soldier!"

As soon as these people arrived in front of Zhao Wen, they jumped off their horses and saluted Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen waved his hands, "Get up!"

These people thanked each other, and then stood up from the ground.

"My lord, this is the secret letter that shopkeeper Liu of Luoyang City asked us to hand over to my lord!" The leading man took out a secret letter sealed with wax from his arms.

Li Xiaosan jumped off the horse, took the secret letter and handed it to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen took the secret letter, checked the seal, and then opened the secret letter.

The contents of the secret letter are the various changes in the Central Henan Mansion in the recent period, as well as some orders issued by Sun Chuanting.

Among them is the order sent by Chongzhen to Sun Chuanting, because Sun Chuanting only implemented the second one, so there is only the second one in the secret letter.

Sun Chuanting had asked Wu Tong to issue the second order in the imperial decree a few days ago, and the spies in Luoyang sent the news to Zhao Wen as soon as they got it.

But because of the existence of the Yellow River defense line, these people who sent the news had to detour.In this way, the speed will be much slower.

After reading the secret letter, Zhao Wen sneered, "Hehe, he also tried to transport all the supplies in Henan to the capital, trying to overwhelm me with the large population of Henan.

If I don't have a railway in my hand, and I don't have the food transported from Taiwan, Java and other places, I'm afraid it's really hard for me to deal with this matter.

It's a pity, a pity, all this is just a joke to me. "

Zhao Wen handed the secret letter in his hand to Li Xiaosan, "Save it, and notify the army to move forward at the same time!"

"Get up, you don't have to go back!" Zhao Wen looked at the people standing on the ground.

"Thank you, my lord!" The men and horses thanked each other, and got on their horses again.

Zhao Wen looked at Li Xiaosan again, "Arrange them!"

Li Xiaosan nodded, and then led these people to the back.

After a while, the army moved forward again.